11 Bookmarks by OptimisticGrey
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Prompt: Domination
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- Part 1 of Durgetash Week 2025
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 329
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 40
- Kudos:
- 41
- Bookmarks:
- 5
- Hits:
- 205
Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
06 Dec 2025
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Crown Heist in Cania: We Are Not Qualified For This by Aerin67
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
03 Dec 2025
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A humorous and (mostly) reliable retelling of how The Dark Urge and Enver Gortash successfully broke into the eighth layer of hell and stole The Crown of Cania.
Featuring: Enver's distracting pectorals, The Bhaalist communal library, unionizing pit fiends, copious threats to wizards, and a multitude of inappropriate workplace behaviours.
---“Enver, you’re still up. Good. How do you feel about stealing from Mephistopheles? Should be a nice change from paperwork.”
The Banite, to his credit, merely offered a brisk nod and went back to whatever incoherent scrawl he was passing off as work. “I’m glad you mentioned it. Pour yourself a drink, let’s talk logistics.”
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- Part 8 of Durgetash Week 2025
- Part 2 of Shadows of Creation
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,442
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 17
- Kudos:
- 22
- Bookmarks:
- 4
- Hits:
- 282
Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
03 Dec 2025
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An unsettling scene of a conversation/connection between God!Gale and his Chosen.
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31 Oct 2025
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Marginalia from the Edge of the Divine- The Memoir of Gale Dekarios by LilyHeartsGale
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
07 Jul 2025
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In this lyrical and haunting, Gale—once Mystra’s favored Chosen, now a scholar of elven high magic—unspools the tale of his extraordinary life: from his childhood in the alleys and libraries of Waterdeep to the moment he stood on the brink of apotheosis, ready to sacrifice himself for the world.
Written two decades after he found a quiet life in Evereska, Gale reflects on love, ambition, and the unbearable intimacy of magic. He chronicles his early enchantment with the goddess of magic and the seductive ruin of their affair, his missteps with power, and the redemptive weight of fatherhood.
But above all, it is a story of love—the love that saved him from destruction, the mother of his child, the one heart he could never let go. From their battles against the remnants of Netheril to quiet nights beneath Evereskan stars, Gale writes with aching beauty of a love both profound and impossible.
Part elegy, part confession, this is a story of one man’s reckoning with divinity, legacy, and the fragile threads of the heart.
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- 18,464
- Works:
- 9
- Bookmarks:
- 14
Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
05 Jul 2025
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You get to see a side of Akoryrr that you haven’t seen before.
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04 Jul 2025
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What if Gale was still in a relationship with Mystra when he met his modern day Tav at a bar one night, and they both made some questionable choices? What if a quick flame only had one night to burn?
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- Part 3 of the clove/gale multiverse
Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
05 Apr 2025
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Dekarios Family by Tynithia
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
21 Apr 2026
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The Dekarios lineage, may not be eccentric as the Harpells or as well known as the Silverhands, they are no less important.
This series starts in Luskan 1379 DR, a couple years after the Host Tower's destruction with Gale's great-grandfather Gaius. We follow how the family moved from Luskan to Waterdeep, how they got their fortune, and who the Dekarios family are today.
The stories are mostly led by original Dekarios characters and several named Forgotten Realm's characters make prominent appearances. Of course, everything is still centered around our favorite wizard of Waterdeep, and my muse, Gale.
I am adding new stories and one-shots all the time.
- Words:
- 286,429
- Works:
- 13
- Bookmarks:
- 6
Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
30 Mar 2025
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A series of mostly Gale-centric ficthings written for the Comfortember Challenge. I am extremely slow so this may end up being a Comfortanuary self-challenge as well.
All replies to the challenge will be posted in this work, so tags may (read: will) change. Not all chapters will be related to or follow from one another, so please read the notes/chapter titles for characters, pairings, and warnings.
In which we have (so far) comforting musical moments, shared happiness around a campfire on a cold night, a day out at an orchard (with sex), Morena and a surprise bb!Gale, Gale and Tav coming home, Tara visiting Gale on the road in Candlekeep, a sick bb!Gale who's needing his tressym, some sad stuff with a hopeful conclusion, Gale and Tav comforting each other, two women (and a tressym) go looking for something that fell from the sky, an old book, Gale waking up from a dream, our favorite wizard trying to get ready for Founder's Day, Gale letting someone take care of him for once, Gale having a guest lecturer come for a few days, tea being had in a haunted library worlds away, and Tav helping Gale end a cycle.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 67,662
- Chapters:
- 17/30
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 142
- Kudos:
- 264
- Bookmarks:
- 43
- Hits:
- 7,415
Bookmarked by OptimisticGrey
24 Mar 2025
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Five times Gale performs, and one time he doesn't.
Clove is a bartender at an upscale theater, and Gale has a run of performances scheduled there every Friday, for six weeks. When Gale stumbles upon her on his first night at the theater, they're both only looking for only a temporary escape, but a lot can change in six weeks, if you're brave enough to let it.
there is really just one place i should be at
it's in the backseat with my head on your lap
i hope he takes the long way, and we don't need to get back
it's the in-between that lasts, it's the in-between that lastsSeries
- Part 7 of the clove/gale multiverse
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18 Mar 2025
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With the Netherbrain defeated, Gale can finally return to Waterdeep with Emmeline by his side. However, a choice lies ahead for his paladin lover. Her vengeance, should she choose to seek it, will hang more than just their future in the City of Splendors in the balance. Will she finally find closure? And if so, what will remain when the dust settles?
Now complete!
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- Part 2 of Your Protector's Coming Home
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15 Feb 2025
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Akoryrr learns what it feels like to not be alone.
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27 Jan 2025